The Lean Library

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Here is a growing resource of book reviews of Lean Manufacturing Books, check it out.

The reviews have a standardized approach:

  • Book description: what's the key message?
  • How does it contribute to the lean knowledge base?
  • What are the highlights? What works?
  • What are the weaknesses? What's missing?
  • How should I read this to get the most out of it?

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Mark Graban
Mark Graban

Mark Graban helps leaders build workplaces where people speak up and improvement sticks, through Lean management, psychological safety, and better use of metrics. He is a keynote speaker, advisor, and host of the Lean Blog Interviews and My Favorite Mistake podcasts.

He is the author of The Mistakes That Make Us, Measures of Success, Lean Hospitals, and Healthcare Kaizen, and a three-time recipient of the Shingo Publication Award. His next book is The Silence Tax.

Mark is also a Senior Advisor to KaiNexus. Get his free ebooks.

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3 Comments

  1. Bad luck with the link. You need to put an http:// in front of it so that it doesn’t prefix with your site.

  2. […] As posted by LeanBlog.org founder Mark Graban, there is a new website available that focuses on helping individuals who want to guide their own self-learning, called The Lean Library. It includes a comprehensive list of lean books, book reviews, links and lean news. We thought we would add our own perspectives on some of these books, as it is part of the original intent of this blog. The first book we choose to discuss was The Machine That Changed the World, in part because it was the first book that influenced many, many people on the benefits and pursuit of the Toyota Production System and lean. […]

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